Attachment for slug-casting typesetting machines



J. H. M CULLEY ATTACHMENT FOR SLUG CASTING TYPESETTING MACHINES Filed June a. 1922 *2 ShaeiavShwt 1 Fig.1.

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J. H. M CULLEY ATTACHMENT FOR SLUG CASTING.TYPESETTING MACHINES Filed June 8. 1922' 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Jizlfiicww ATTORNEYS WITNESSES wk Patented Get; 1.4-, 1924:

JAMES H. 'MOC'ULLEY, OF BO'ZEMAN, MONTANA.

ATTACHMENT FOP.- SLUG-CASTING TYPESETTING MACHINES.

Application filed June 8, 1922. Serial No. 586,773.

T all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. 'MOCULLEY,

a citizen of the United States,- and a resident of Bozeman, in the county of Gallatin and tate of Montana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Slug-Casting Typesetting Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. r

This invention relates to improvements in attachments for slug casting and type setting machines, an object of the invention being to provide an attachment which will greatly facilitate the production of ruled blank forms and vertically ruled tabular compost tion.

Another obj ect of the invention is to provide a device of this character capable of being attached with facility to such machines for performing the work intended, and an attachment which will be simple and practical in construction, efficient in use, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

Still a further object is to suggest a distinctly novel method of assembling forms of the character above stated.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described in which the ruled blank forms may consist of hair lines, one point lines, double face lines, or the like, these various lines being made from the same means.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described in which means is provided for not only making various sized lines, but for also making blank rules.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a device of the type described in which the vertical rules on the tabular composition may be spaced from each other at any distance desired.-

V-Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

through a slug casting machine showing my improved attachment in position;

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 but showing the parts in a different position;

Figure l is a fragmentary view in section- Figure 3 is a view in front elevation of the attachment in position upon the justification bar;

Figure i is an enlarged detail sectional view on the line H of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a. perspective view of one of the cast slugs;

Figure 6 is a fragmentary plan view of the assembled form;

Figure 7 is a perspective view of two of the slides, and

Figure 8 is a fragi'nentary plan view of another assembled form.

Referring in detail to the drawings, 1 have used the reference numeral 1 to designate the mold disk of a slug casting machine carrying a conventional type of mold 2, into which molten metal is adapted to be delivered from a mold spout 8. The elevator 4 of the machine is provided with the usual justificationrods 5* serving to operate the vise justification bar 6, upon which the vise justification block or bumper 7 is mounted.

My improved attachment includes a pair of members 8 and 9, the member 8 taking the place of and being substantially identical in construction with the usual border slide block used on linotype machines. This block is disposed directly behind the mold and is equipped with a slide 10 provided with the usual niche or groove 11 (see Figure 3) for casting the horizontal rule of the slug.

In addition to the groove 11', the slide 10 has three other grooves 30, 31, and (see Figure 7). The grooves 11, 30, and 81 are fashioned so as to provide a hair line, point line, or double face line to the slug. In this manner, the slug can be provided with any line or rule desired. The grooves 11 and 32 are adapted to be used when the.

member 8 is in the position shown in Figure 1. When it is desired to use the groove in place of the groove 11', the slides 10 are merely reversed or turned upside down. The grooves 30 and 31- are brought into operative-position by actuating the rails (not shown), these members being part of the ordinary linotype machine. The slides 10 are disposed in one position in order to use the grooves 11 and 30, and are turned upside down in order to use the grooves 31' and 32.

It will further be noted from Figure 7 that the groove 32 isnot as deep as the grooves 11, 30 or 31. used when it is desired to cast blank rules on the slugs. This operation will be more fully described hereinafter.

It has been customary to form these slugs with the horizontal rule and then cut niches in the slugs for the reception of an inserted brass or copper perpendicular rule, the whole making a ruled tabular form. My improved attachment entirely does away with the necessity of manually-cutting niches in the edges of the slug and provides means for automatically forming these recesses or niches for the reception of the metal rules.

In carrying out the invention, the block 9 which is located under the block 8 and in vertical alinement therewith carries a plurality of vertically disposed needles 12 which are mounted to slide in openings 13 in a flange 14 of the block 8, these needles serving to guide the movement of the block 9 and maintain the blocks 8 and 9 in vertical alinement. Screw threaded posts 15 are screwed into the bottoms of recesses 16 in the upper face of the block 9, said posts passing through the block8 and including heads 17 having limited movement in recesses 18 in the upperface of the block 8. Coiled expansion springs 19 are interposed around the posts within the recesses 16 between the bottom of the block 8 and the bottom of therecesses 16, said springs having a tendency to normally separate the blocks, as indicated in Figure 2 of the drawings.

.33 are also in alinement with a like number of grooves 341 in the member 9. The needles 12 may be disposed in any set of alined openings 13 and grooves 33 and 34. desired. I

In Figure 3 I have shown the two members 8 and 9 moved into engagement with each other. This operation moves the needles 12 upwardly into thespace occu-. pied by the slides 10. In the drawing I have shown the needles disposed at various distances from each other. The needles may be disposed in any of the grooves 13 and 33 desired. The slides 10 are of various lengths and are disposed between the needles 12. When the two members 8 and 9 abut each other, the needles 12 completely fill the grooves 35, formed by the junction of two adjacent slides 10. In Figure 7, I have illustrated how the. adjacent ends of the slides 10 are beveled so as to provideneedle The groove 32 is and 32, will not fill the portion of the groove in which the needle is disposed.

In operation, the justification slide block moves upwardly, forcing the block 9 into engagement with the block 8 against the action of the springs 19 and in the arrangement shown in Figure 3, causes the needles 12 to ride upwardly in the grooves 35 and into the groove 11 in the block 8. The molten metal is delivered through the spout 3 into the mold 2, and'the needles serve to provide niches or recesses 21 in the vertical rule 22 of a cast slug 23. As the justification block drops, the springs 16 tend to separate the blocks 8 and 9 withdrawing the needles 12 and permitting turning of the mold disk 1 to complete the finishing operations on the cast slug. v

In Figure 6, I have illustrated a number of slugs 23 arranged with their horizontal rules 22 in parallelism and have shown the conventional brass rules 20 inserted through the alined niches 21 in the rules 22 of the slugs to form the vertical rules and to hold the slugs together in the form assemblage. The form shown in Figure 6 will print both vertical and horizontal lines.

It is often desirous to provide forms which will print a plurality of parallel lines without printing the cross lines. In. this instance, the slides 10 are reversed in their position from that showninFigure 3, so as to dispose the groove 32 in juxtaposition with the mold 2. As heretofore stated, this groove is not as deep as the other grooves in the slides and makes what is termed a blank rule upon the slug, 1. e., a rule that does not print. The number of needles 12 in this case must correspond to the number of printing lines desired on the com pleted form. The metal in flowing into the groove 32 provides a blank rule 36 (see F igure 8) which has notches 37 therein. The

notches are of the same size as the notches 21 in the rule 22. Thebrass rules 20 are then inserted in the alined'fnotches 3'7. The brass rules are of the same height as the rules 22, and since the rules 36 are of less height than the rules 22, the rules 20 will project above the rules 36. This construction is clearly shown in Figure 8. In this form of the device, the rules, 20 not only act as the means for holding the slugs together, but also are the printing rules, the

rules 36 being blanks or unprintingrulesi The slides 10, therefore, provide a simple,

efficient, and novel means whereby forms" can be constructed which have only parallel lines, or parallel and vertical lines.

I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention, but it is to be understood that numerous slight changes and alterations might be made in the general form and arrangement of the attachment without departing from the invention, and hence I do notwish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but shall consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a device of the type described, a grooved block cooperating with a mold for forming a printing rib on a slug cast in the mold, of means movable into the groove to form niches in said rib.

2. In a device of the type described a grooved block cooperating with a mold and adapted to form a printing rib-on a slug cast in the mold, a second block, devices carried by said named block and being movable into the groove to form niches in said rib.

In a device of the type described a grooved block cooperating with a mold. and adapted to form a printing rib on a slug cast in the mold, a second block mounted in vertical alinement with said grooved block, devices carried thereby movable into the groove to form niches in said rib, and means for positively moving said second named block upwardly before metal is introduced into the mold.

4c. In a device of the type described a grooved block cooperating with a mold and adapted to form a printing rib on a slug cast in the mold, a second block mounted in vertical alinement with said grooved block and below the same, devices carried thereby and being movable into the groove to form niches in said rib, means for positivel moving said block upwardly before meta is introduced into the mold, and yielding means for separating the blocks.

5. In a device of the type described a grooved block cooperating with a mold and adapted to form a printing rib on a slug cast in the mold, a second block mounted in vertical alinement with said grooved block and below the same, devices carried by said second named block and being movable into the groove to form niches in said rib, means for positively moving said block upwardly before metal is introduced intothe mold,

spring means for separating the blocks after the casting operation to permit turning of the mold.

6. In a device of the type described, an elevator, a justification block supported on the elevator, a grooved border block cooperating with a mold, a second block in vertical alinement therewith, and adapted to be engaged by the justification block to raise the second mentioned block, and needles carried by said block and being movable into the grooves as the block is raised.

7. In a device of the type described, an elevator, a justification block supported on the elevator, and a grooved border block cooperating with the mold, a second block in vertical alinement therewith, and adapted to be engaged by the justification block to raise the second mentioned block, needles carried by said block movable into the grooves as the block is raised, and springs tending to separate the border block and the needle carrying block to withdraw the needles after the casting operation.

8. In a linotype machine, the combination with a mold, of a slide cooperating with said mold, said slide having a groove therein adapted to form a non-printing rib on the slug cast in the mold, and means cooperating with said slide and movable into the groove to form niches in said rib.

9. A device of the type described comprising a stationary member, a movable member, means for moving said second named member toward and away from said first named member, said members having needle receiving grooves therein, the grooves in each member being in alinement with one another, needles disposed in certain of said grooves, said stationary member having a recess therein extending at right angles to said grooves, said needles being adapted to enter said recess when said members are moved into engagement with one another, and slides disposed in said recess, said slides being disposed between said needles.

10. In a device of the type described, a slide carrying member having a recess therein, a slide disposed in said recess and having a groove therein adapted to register with the outlet of a mold, and means for filling portions of the groove to make slots in the lug formed by'the metal in the groove.

11. In a device of the type described, a slide carrying member having a recess therein, a slide disposed in said recess and having a groove therein adapted to register with the outlet of a mold, and means for filling portions of thegroove to make slots in the lug formed by the metal in the groove, said means being movable into and out of said groove.

'12. In'a device of the type described, a slide carrying member having a recess there in, a slide disposed in said recess and having a. groove therein adapted. to register with the open end of a mold, a needle carrying member, needles carried by said members and'being adapted to enter said groove.

13. In a device of the type described, a slide carrying member having a recess therein, a slide disposed in said recess and having a groove therein adapted to register with the open end. of a mold, a needle carrying member, needles carried by said members and being adapted to enter said groove, said needle carryin member being movable toward and away lrom said slide carrying member, whereby said needles may be disposed in or removed from said groove.

14:. In a device of the type described, a slide carrying member having a side adapted to contact with the outer side of a mold and to cover. the open end of the mold, said side having aplurality of needle receiving grooves therein, and having a recess with a plurality of needles adapted to be disposed in any one of said-needle receiving grooves, the outer Surfacesofsaid needles lying flush with the side of said needle carrying member, said needles being adapted to extend transversely across said recess, and slides having grooves therein disposed "in said resaid side having a plurality or needle're- 1 ceiving grooves therein, and having a recess with a plurality of needles adapted to be disposed in any one of said needle receivs ing grooves, the outer surfaces of said needles lying flush with the side of said needle earrying member,.said needles being adapted to extend transversely across said recess, and slides having grooves therein disposed in said recess, said slides extending between said needles, and means for. moving said needles into and out of said recesses.

A Janus H. MQCULLE Y. 

